Links for Kansas
Environment > Climate and Weather
- Great Plains Regional Center for Global Environmental Change
- devoted to interdisciplinary research that develops quantitative information on the role of key ecosystems as sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
- Green Report
- a weekly look at the State's croplands, rangelands, and forestlands from space
- High Plains Regional Climate Center
- climate data and maps for High Plains area
- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
- promoting the understanding of global environmental change
- Kansas State University Weather Data Library
- data library for climate, evapotranspiration, precipitation
- Kansas Weather (National Weather Service)
- forecasts, watches, warnings, and the most recently observed weather conditions for locations throughout Kansas are available here
- NOAAServer
- access to distributed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data and information
- National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
- weather data archive
- National Drought Mitigation Center
- helps people and institutions implement measures to reduce societal vulnerability to drought
- National Severe Storms Laboratory
- dedicated to improving severe weather warnings and forecasts in order to save lives and reduce property damage
- National Weather Service Cumulative Precipitation Page
- images of precipitation distribution across the nation and individual states for different periods (for example, past day, past week, past month, past year, etc.)
- National Weather Service Forecast Selection Page
- forecasts by county
- US Drought Monitor
- national drought monitoring site
- US National Assessment of Climate Change
- a detailed overview of the consequences of climate change and mechanisms for adaptation